Algorithm study for patients with Alzheirmer

Algorithm study for patients with Alzheirmer

         For my part I find impressive as the human being evolved enough to get to solve issues and problems so serious in general, but I want to focus on this medical problem is as serious as Alzheimer's. The disease eventually create disasters in being who possesses it, but it creates the biggest blow is the gradual loss of memory.

        Studies claim that this problem can be solved with a specialized for or subject algorithm, this helps the memory is restored or last longer, the method makes it possible to omit a damaged or diseased region , although there is no way to "read " a memory , you can decode their content or meaning from its electrical signal.

         This is done at the University of Southern California and Baptist Medical Center Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

        This process reached a being made ​​in small noncarriers users of the disease (monkeys, rats) and people with epileptic attacks, even not been tested in people with Alzheimer's, for now, it takes very little for testing.

        This treatment (from my point of view) does not have any disadvantage because by the time test and study all positive come out and this opens the door to new investigations to treat more complex problems.

        Thanks to this contribution, as is done with computers, other brain negatives can be treated more successfully than they are today, for example , people suffering from paralysis in either limb or whole body can be treated with an artificial bionic spine , these are already a little more elaborate and discuss it at the next trial .

Create a computer algorithm that could restore memory in patients with Alzheimer's disease or brain damage

 M. Rodriguez

A team of US researchers It has developed an implant that, with the help of a computer algorithm, helps damaged brains encode memories, something that could be useful in people with Alzheimer's and wounded soldiers who have difficulty remembering the recent past.

The prosthesis developed after a long collaboration of 10 years by researchers from the University of Southern California and Baptist Medical Center Wake Forest University in North Carolina, consists of a small set of electrodes implanted in the brain and a computer algorithm that mimics the electrical signaling used by the brain to translate the short-term memories into permanent memories.

This makes it possible to omit a damaged or diseased region, although there is no way to "read" a reminder, you can decode their content or meaning from its electrical signal.

The project was funded by DARPA, the Projects Agency Defense Advanced Research of the United States, in order to discover new ways to help soldiers recover from memory loss. However, according to the researchers, the findings of the research could also be used to help treat neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, allowing signals to avoid damaged hippocampal circuits or memory center in the brain.

How does it work

Sensory information to the brain (images, sounds, smells, or feelings) create complex, known as trains of action potentials that travel through the hippocampal electrical signals. This neural process involves re-encoding the signals several times, so they have a very different electrical signature when they are ready for long-term storage.

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